Eatonia .22 CAL?

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Found out that this was my great grandpas rifle. The only marking on it are Eatonia .22 CAL

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My great grandpas initials, looked it up in a family book we have (moms side). Before today I did not know his name.

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It functions, but its looks show its age. But to me its priceless.



So, any history on the Eatonia name?

Any idea the years that it may have been manufactured?
 
Cooey model 75.....made by Cooey in Ontario before Olin( Winchester) purchased the company). the Co. produced the guns for many different retail names several being Eatons, Hudson Bay, Macleods etc. The serial numbering system was not instituted until 1968 so dating these older rifles is just guesstimation.There are thousands of these old girls around so I would refinish the woods and keep it as well as get it out doing what it is meant for, shooting and being enjoyed.
 
Yep, sold by Eatons. We have one but with a thinner forestock.

Note that the stocks tend to break at the mounting bolt.
 
You are a lucky man. Those old guns get no respect, and tend to migrate out of family control. I have a 16ga GEHA Mauser-action bolt action shotgun like my grandfather's. Not the same one but the same thing.

As was mentioned on another thread, guns with no markings get registered as no-serial number on the papers. The Feds used to give out dorky little fingernail-sized stickers, but they lost interest in marking guns when the budgets got torqued down.
 
so I take it my grampys old .22 is an m75 too only his has a super heavy thick forstock and was labled sureshot.
 
I have an Eatonia from my Great Grandfather, very similar gun but with slimmer stock. If you want to see pics of it, PM me your email address. Many of these guns were scrapped during the initial stages of the gun registry, many didn't want to bother.
 
Thanks for the info guys, were Eatonia's still produced after cooey was sold? Just trying to narrow down the date's as best I can.

Maple, my dad has a remo popular 12ga shotgun in his basement, I believe its the same idea as the GEHA. But its missing parts, stock is broken in multiple places, etc.
 
The Cooey 75 was manufactured up til late 1970s. How many and the years of Eatonia marked rifles is anyones guess. the records were destroyed many years ago. Best guess is probably the early 40s to 50s. The model 75 kept its popularity after the 1961 takeover and the model 750 was made.
 
Winnipeg Toymaker said:
The Cooey 75 was manufactured up til late 1970s. How many and the years of Eatonia marked rifles is anyones guess. the records were destroyed many years ago. Best guess is probably the early 40s to 50s. The model 75 kept its popularity after the 1961 takeover and the model 750 was made.
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As stated, Eatonia was a T. Eaton and Co. Ltd. trademark. In the 1930s Eatons had a 22 bolt action in their catalogue for $4.95, with no added tax and the price included shipping. It was named Rabbit Rifle, and I think, but not sure, that the name was on the rifle. It was very small, so definetely not yours. Yours could have sold for as much as seven, or even close to eight dollars!
 
I had a rabbit gun in the late 50s....It sure was small but accurate, the metal trigger guard sort of formed a pistol grip, very small bolt and lever too. .. It did not have the Eatons marking but I was told it was a catalogue gun from Eatons and cost $5.00. It disappeared from my fathers place just after his death, wished I had it now to hold.
 
Winnipeg Toymaker said:
I had a rabbit gun in the late 50s....It sure was small but accurate, the metal trigger guard sort of formed a pistol grip, very small bolt and lever too. .. It did not have the Eatons marking but I was told it was a catalogue gun from Eatons and cost $5.00. It disappeared from my fathers place just after his death, wished I had it now to hold.
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Did it have Rabbit gun, or some such thing, actually marked on the gun?
At the time those were being marketed for $4.95 (even back then Eatons never had anything at an even dollar price, always a few cent under) every homesteader in the country had a 22 rifle and virtually every one was a single shot, practically always, a bolt. Also, every single one of them used shorts.
They carried the little rifle everywhere they went, always with a 22 short in the barrel.
 
i remember it having something stamped on it but do recall it being stamped for .22 shorts. At $0.34 cents a box of 50 it was still expensive for a kid but there was a $.05 bounty on gopher tails. It took a lot of them down. even at the gun shows I have been to, I have never seen another gun like it. i have seen the bolt at several.
 
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